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maic law. The author points out that Ptolemaic law identified the state with the royalty and regarded crimes against the state as crimes against the sovereign (cf. my Law2 473). The Ptolemaic
law did not know the notions: προδοσία and κατάλυσις τοϋ δήμου, so highly developed in the law of Athens.
F. Serrao, II fragmmento Leidense di Paolo. Probierni di diritto cri-minate romano (Universita di Roma, Pubblicazioni dell' Isti-tuto di Diritto romano e dei diritti dell'Oriente mediterraneo X X X I I I , 1956) 142 P P.
Besides the Apokrimata of Septimius Severus published by W e s t e r m a n n and by Schiller, and besides the 4th and 5th se-ries of the Herculanum tablets published by Pugliese-Carratelli and A r a n g i o - R u i z , the Leiden fragments of Sententiae Pauli in the last two years have enriched the knowledge of Roman law.
The excellent monograph of Serrao, devoted to this fragment, consists of 6 paragraphs: § 1. treats of the prohibition of decreeing honours to the governors and their suite by the provincial legisla-tive bodies; § 2. settles the prohibitions to the senators of receiving by themselves public offices and carrying on maritime business;
§ 3. manages the "accusatio ex lege Fabia''' and the "actio de lege reptundarum'''; § 4. examines the prohibition given to the provin-cial officers of taking office the same year when they came back from Rome; § 5. negotiates the execution of sentences pronounced in a process ex lege repetundarum; § 6. discusses the criminal prose-cution and the actio against one guilty of retundae.
The author makes also use of the papyri (cf. index p. 142). M. Th. Lenger, Le fragment de loi ptolémaïque P. Petrie III, 26
(Bodl. Ms. Gr. class, d. 27 [Ρ]) (Studi in on. U. Ε. Paoli, 459-467). The study contains a new edition of this papyrus with a com-mentary concerning all questions about the damage caused by cattle on the ground of another owner. The law established the respon-sibility of the cattle-owner under the reservation that the damage and interests ought to be fixed by the court.
E. J. B i c k e r m a n , Two Legal Interpretations of the Suptuagint (RIDA 3 sér. III [1956] 81—104).
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The author interprets Gen. 34, 12 — Exod. 22, 16 as referring to the dowry and Exod. 22, 4 as referring to the actio de pastu. Also the author makes some use of the papyrological literature (cf. p. 10237,
10369, 8922, 23, 9 1 „ , 9537, 101 ff., 1033 ff.).
J. M o d r z e j e w s k i , Quelques remarques à propos de Vhomicide et de la rançon dans le droit d'Egypte romaine (Note sur P. Mich.
VIII 473) (IVRA 8 [1957] 93—101).
In this excellent essay the author tries to show that the private settlement of the claims resulting from an unpremeditated murder in P. Mich. VIII 473 (II cent. A.D.) (cf. my Law2 433) does not
represent official but popular law; in the official law this crime considered as a delictum publicum was persecuted by the state.
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A. Calderini, Alcuni rilievi preliminari di toponomastica greco-egizia (Eos 48 fasc. 3 = Symbolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae III
[1957] 67—76).
This article contains interesting remarks on some topographi-cal and geographitopographi-cal designations beginning with the letter A, proposed for the author's Dizionario geografico and topografico delVEgitto greco-romano.
V. T c h e r i k o v e r , Jewish Apologetic Literature Reconsidered (Eos 48 fasc. 3 = Symbolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae III [1957] 169—193).
This study is of high interest for the jurist as the apologetic literature reflects the political and social state of Alexandrian Jewry in the Hellenistie period.
A. R. K o r s u n s k i , O kolonáte v vostotshnoy Rimskoy Imperii V—VI v. [= About the Colonate in the East-Roman Empire in V—VI cent.] (Vizatiyski Vremennik I X [1956] 45—77).
The author examines the question of sources of the colonate and the social condition of the coloni. He asserts that the colonate
